Word: drum
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...Same old thing, man," said Sheik over the drum-roll chuckle that always punctuated his words. "Same old thing...
...that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
...alumna of the Harvard Band and a former assistant manager, I am well aware of the hand's tremendous commitment to wards keeping the Harvard spirit alive and kicking throughout the Harvard community. Not only does the bun "drum up" financial support for the University (which in turn feeds into your athletic department), but it also sends electricity through the stands at athletic events, with its rousing choruses of "The Thousand Men of Harvard" and numerous other fight songs. I am quite certain that those sparks of electricity have a very positive effect on every Harvard achieve...
...living on New York City's posh Upper East Side. But while he paid no rent, perhaps he should have been charged some tolls. For Cruz had set up residence, complete with a salvaged bed, storage-crate furniture, a beer cooler and a stove made from an oil drum, smack in the middle of a 35-ft.-long traffic island on Manhattan's East River Drive. His presence immediately stopped a bit of traffic; passing motorists were enchanted by the sight of the eccentric tenant, protected from the elements only by the elevated southbound lanes overhead, and slowed...
...blues. He didn't talk like anybody else I had ever heard. You'd say to him, 'What do you call what you're doin'?' and he'd say, 'Double-note crossovers and over-and-unders.' He called the bass drum 'the foot propeddler.' He'd show up at work some nights during the '50s wearing a tux and tails with a turtleneck shirt and an Army fatigue cap with a watchband on it. He'd wear white gloves and have a big plate of food...